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Patented Apr. 16, 1889.

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EDlVIN F. STRANGE, OF TAUNTON, MASSAGIIUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ELIAS XV. STRANGE, OF SAME PLACE.

TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 401,470, dated April 16, 1889.

Application filed July 11, 1885. Serial No. 279,633. (No model.)

To all whom it 11mg concern: oil is introduced between the interior wall of Be it known that I, EDWIN F. STRANGE, of boxes g and journals through a series of Taunton, in the county of Bristol an d State of small passages, j, in the thin part of the boxes, Massachusetts, have invented a new and useas shown. Said hubs or are formed with an 5 ful Improvementin Brick-Yard'li'iiclcs,wliioli elongation or band, q, to extend inward over will, in connection with the accompanying tubular portion a a sufiicient distance to predrawings, be hereinafter fully described, and vent dirt from entering boxes g, and upon the specifically defined in the appended claims. outer end of said hubslsecure by a set'screw,

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan 12, the well-fitting caps m, to exclude dust or [0 view of a truck embodying my invention. dirt at that end of theboxes, yet allowing ac- Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 cess to the linchpinsf when desired. is a vertical section taken through the axle, Upon tubes (4 a, I form the lugs s, on which wheels, and springs transversely to the longito seat the spring-blocks i, that receive springs tudinal line of the truck. Fig. a is a vertical C, as shown; and at the lineal center of the I 5 section taken transversely to the axle through axle is formed the lug u, to which the draft the lineal center thereof, and viewed as from bar or pole c is bolted, as shown, a supportthe left in Fig. 3, certain parts being shown ing-prop, w,being hinged to said bar to supin section. Fig. 5 is a vertical section taken port it at proper height, as also the forward transversely to the axle, as on line Z Z, Fig. end of bodyD, which at its front end rests on 2o 3, and viewed as from the left in that figure, said bar, and at or near its lineal center rests certain parts being shown in elevation. upon spring-blocks 00.

This invention relates more especially to As the springs, body, and draft-bar constithat class of trucks which are employed in tute no part of my invention, and are only brick-yards for transporting the brick from shown for purpose of illustrating the object 7 5 25 point to point therein during the various of my invention, they need. be no further deprocesses and stages of their manufacture; scribed.

and it consists in features of novelty herein- By forming the central portion of the axle after particularly described, and pointed out separate from the journals many advantages in the claims. are secured, among which are the facts that the 30 Referring again to the drawings, A A repcentral portion may be of common cast-iron, resent the wheels, which, in view of their exwith the facility of forming, inexpensively, posure to great changes of temperature and the described lugs to receive the spring-blocks degrees of moisture and dryness, are preferand draftbar, as also the tubes (1, for insertion ably formed entirely of iron, as an integral of the journals, and when said journals have "5 casting, with the exception of the axle-boxes, become worn so as to be unfit for further to be hereinafter explained. service they can be readily replaced with new.

The axle 13 consists of three several and By forming said journals of requisite length, sepa "able parts-to wit, a central casting, emand with holes f at both ends, they can, after bodying the tubular ends a a, united by bars the outer end has been worn beyond fitness 4o T) Z), and the wrought-metal journals 0 c, held for use,be reversed, and the end that is so in place in tubes abyset-screws d. Near each worn can be secured in tube a, and the other end of journals 0, 1 form a transverse hole, end (not before worn) subjected to use as the e, in which to insert the linchpinsf, that bearing for the wheel, thus obtaining double secure wheels A upon said journals. The service from the journals, and by forming 5 .5 journal-boxes g in hubs or of the wheels are boxes gseparate and removable from the hubs formed with an external reduction at their I can not only provide the described oil-chammiddle portion, so that when inserted in hubs her 'i with its capacity for oiling the wheels, na concentric oil-chamber, '27, is formed, the oil but when worn past use the boxes are readily being introduced into said chamber through replaced, thus rendering wheels A durable far r00 50 passage 7c of the hub 01-, aplug-screw, Z, closing beyond what has been hitherto possible.

said passage after the oil is introduced. The I claim as my invention- 1. A truck-axle formed with an integral cast-metal center having tubes a a, united by a bar or bars, I), with the insertible journals c c, removably secured in said tubes, substantially as specified.

2. A truck axle formed With the integral cast-metal center having tubes to a for the reception of journals 0 c, and the lugs .9, formed at each end to support the springs, substantially as specified.

3; Atruck-axle formed with the, integral cast-metal center having tubes a a, to receive journals 0 c, and a lug, u, for connection of the draft-bar, substantially as specified.

4. A truck-axle consisting of aunitary castmetal center having lug u for the draft-bar, lugs s for the springs, and tubes a for the journals 0, and said journals therein arranged, all substantially as specified.

j, leading from said recess i to the journals, 0

substantially as specified.

EDWIN F. STRANGE.

Witnesses:

CLARA L. POWER, EUGENE HUMPHREY. 

